HARRISBURG — Charting a dramatic new course, Gov. Tom Wolf proposes sweeping changes today in the way the state pays for public education and taxes individuals and businesses during his first state budget address.
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A quick look outside more resembles a scene for the Iditarod, but spring sports athletes began workouts on opening day Monday.Teams gathered across the region after enduring the frigid weather of February.
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An attorney representing juveniles in a class-action lawsuit over Luzerne County’s kids-for-cash scandal said he doubts First National Community Bank could be added as a defendant despite last week’s news that the bank failed to report suspicious transactions from a corrupt judge who sat on its board of directors.
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A virus is spreading through our Stiff Neck of the Woods, infecting unsuspecting citizens as they trudge through another winter of discontent. Seasons change, but pessimism is a chronic condition around here.
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